What a load of Barbara Streisand.
Which Washington, DC Clinton holdouts in the FBI is Michael Isikoff trying to protect here? Isikoff can't possibly be shilling for Bill McCollum and his former House Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare committee members, can he? (Bill is trying to play dumb and is ridiculously claiming that Yosef Bodansy never told him about anything.)
Those of you inside the Beltway this morning: Look for those in DC who display an abnormally high Pucker Factor when Dan Burton comes into the room. They're the ones.
An Oklahoma Mystery New hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists
L.A. Weekly | JULY 19 - 25, 2002 | Jim Crogan
"The task force was on the mark when it came to their warnings about the emerging threat of Middle Eastern terrorism," McCollum said. "I can tell you that we were very concerned about the possibility of a Middle East connection to Oklahoma City. But we never found any evidence there was one." [Translation: "Those @#$% stolen FBI files got in our way."]
McCollum, however, said he never heard of the reporting done by TV journalist Jayna Davis, which connected McVeigh and Nichols with Middle Eastern figures in Oklahoma City and the Philippines. Nor did he know of Davis' ongoing communications with Yossef Bodansky, executive director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. "Seffy [Bodansky] never told me anything about that," he said. "This is all news to me." [Riiight, Bill. Bodansky told Federal Protective Services special agent Thomas Williams and former TV reporter Jayna Davis, but he never shared with you?!]
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On August 2, 1995, Federal Protective Services special agent Thomas Williams sent a memo to his branch chief, John Crowe, detailing his communication with terrorism task-force director Yossef Bodansky. In it, he states Bodansky told him that a lot of names that came up in NBC reports (by TV journalist Jayna Davis) overlapped with the names of suspects Bodansky had compiled.
In a taped conversation between Bodansky and [Jayna] Davis on May 18, 1996, Bodansky tells the reporter that by mid-April, intelligence information suggested that government buildings had been specifically targeted. He said the intelligence had been accumulated over 18 months. He also said he had gotten another warning from Israeli intelligence, a week before the bombing, that an attack would be launched in America's heartland.
Also on May 18, Bodansky faxed two notes to Davis in which he provides more details about the task force's intelligence analysis. Bodansky writes that after the bombing, it was determined that Oklahoma City had been "on the list of potential targets." The second note states that "The initial forensic investigation of the explosion in Oklahoma suggested strong similarities to bombing techniques used by Iran-sponsored Islamist terrorists, including the car bomb that destroyed [a] building in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994."
The Terrorist Motel: The I-40 connection between Moussaoui and Atta
LA Weekly | JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2002 | Jim Crogan
[This one is a definite MUST-READ. Read the entire article and it becomes clear why the DC insiders are trying to play dumb. The Oklahoma City bombing victims deserve better.]